Christian Piatt

Flash Mob Ministry: A New Model for Instant Church

August 31, 2012

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Lance Armstrong and the Way of Fallen Idols

Christian Piatt

August 25, 2012

General

I, like many people, was shocked when I heard today that cyclist Lance Armstrong gave up his fight against doping allegations, effectively forfeiting his seven Tour De France titles, his prize money, medal...

Planning for Poverty: The SNAP Challenge

Christian Piatt

August 20, 2012

General, Practical Justice

I’ve said before that privilege often is invisible until you don’t have it. So in that light, I’m doing a little experiment in a few days with our family, and I encourage you to join in. A lot of us never ...

Are the Culture Wars Real? A Case for Heresy

Christian Piatt

August 9, 2012

General

Growing up, I heard things at camp and in youth group about how “the world” thought and acted one way, and how “we” were not like that. In fact the world, it seemed, was intent on unraveling everything I va...

God Loves Losers: Reflections on the Olympics

Christian Piatt

August 3, 2012

General

I’m an Olympics junkie. Not only that, but I’m also most ardently pro-American when watching them. My wife, Amy, and I were watching synchronized platform diving two nights ago (hone...

Five Reasons Why Failure is Awesome

Christian Piatt

July 30, 2012

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When I was in preschool, I was insanely jealous of the kids who were given speaking parts in the Christmas play. I actually “repeated” preschool because I was too young for Kindergarten after year one, so I f...

Ten Antidotes to Christian Cliches

Christian Piatt

July 14, 2012

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This is the final in a four-part series on the overused (and often insensitively employed) phrases that plague the Christian lexicon. Though I felt like I was offering some insight into what to do instead of...

Nine (Final) Christian Cliches to Avoid

Christian Piatt

July 12, 2012

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Read article one in the series here: Ten Cliches Christians Should Never Use Read article two in the series here: Ten More Cliches Christians Should Avoid The response to this series of articles has been pret...

Ten More Cliches Christians Should Avoid

Christian Piatt

July 10, 2012

General

After writing up my first list of Ten Cliches Christians Should Never Use, some folks wrote me with other suggestions. After simmering on it for a while, I came up with a second list of ten to supplement th...